Following the method outlined in the Earth Immortal’s legacy, Ye Qingxuan guided all his consciousness through his immortal soul, merging it into the essence of his vitality, energy, and spirit. From there, it spread throughout his entire body.
With his immortal soul overseeing the entire process, everything proceeded exceptionally smoothly. In just half a ke (15 minutes), Ye Qingxuan completed this step.
Once his consciousness integrated with the essence of his vitality, energy, and spirit, Ye Qingxuan gained complete control over his physical body and spiritual power. Even his immortal soul was now fully under his command. It was no longer like before when he had to channel his consciousness into the immortal soul each time just to utilize a sliver of its power.
With consciousness flowing within his flesh, Ye Qingxuan could easily observe his own internal microcosm. It radiated with intertwined, flowing lights of various elemental colors. Activating his spiritual power no longer required casting spells to mobilize it; it was entirely under his will. Even when spiritual power left his body, the presence of his consciousness allowed it to maintain itself independently in the outside world for an extended period.
Furthermore, the range of his divine sense had expanded tenfold. Originally, he could only perceive with it. Now, he could not only perceive but also ‘see’ with his own ‘eyes’—as if his divine sense had grown a pair of eyes out of thin air! Currently, he felt a sense of effortless mastery over his divine sense and spiritual power, as natural as moving his own limbs.
Experiencing this unique state, Ye Qingxuan smiled lightly and said, “Feels pretty good!”
This meant his comprehension would reach a new level, significantly reducing the time needed to cultivate spells and supernatural abilities.
After merging his consciousness with the essence of his vitality, energy, and spirit, Ye Qingxuan entered a brief period of seclusion.
The cave-heaven would still require three months to fully form and stabilize. Naturally, he wouldn’t waste these three months. While forming the seed of a supernatural ability required at least the Golden Core realm, the Earth Immortal’s legacy contained numerous spell inheritances. He could start by cultivating some spells as a transition.
Thus, over the next three months, Ye Qingxuan was either meditating to cultivate or practicing spells. Both Qi Refining and Foundation Building realms had limited spiritual power, restricting them to basic spells for now, though the power of these basic spells differed vastly between the two realms!
Besides meditation and spell practice, Ye Qingxuan also planted many spirit plants in the Qingxuan Paradise during his spare time, including a good number of spirit herbs. Spirit herbs are a category of spirit plants, but spirit plants encompass more than just herbs. While these spirit plants wouldn’t offer him much immediate help, they would provide significant aid in the early growth of his paradise.
As the master of the paradise, Ye Qingxuan could clearly sense that as these spirit plants grew, the paradise continuously analyzed the minute fragments of elemental laws contained within them, using them to perfect itself! Perhaps due to the presence of his immortal soul, Ye Qingxuan’s sensitivity to the workings of heaven and earth was exceptionally keen. He could feel the paradise’s incremental progress almost every day.
And so, with a structured routine of meditation, spell practice, and nurturing spirit plants, time passed swiftly for Ye Qingxuan.
In the blink of an eye, three months had passed.
On this day, while meditating, Ye Qingxuan suddenly opened his eyes, a flash of sharp light within them! “The cave-heaven, it’s done!”
In the next moment, a surge of origin essence, even vaster than the feedback from the Qingxuan Paradise, appeared out of thin air within Ye Qingxuan’s body. Without needing refinement by his spiritual roots, this origin power actively began merging with his spiritual power, rapidly enhancing his cultivation.
Having experienced this once before, Ye Qingxuan remained calm and composed. He firmly controlled all aspects of himself, smoothly cooperating with this cave-heaven origin power to elevate his cultivation.
Late Foundation Building!
Peak Foundation Building!
Finally, after absorbing all this cave-heaven origin power, Ye Qingxuan successfully broke through to the peak of the Foundation Building realm, just one step away from the Purple Mansion realm.
The Purple Mansion realm required opening the Muddy Pellet space to strengthen a cultivator’s soul origin. Ye Qingxuan had already condensed an immortal soul, and the Muddy Pellet space within his mind had long been opened. Therefore, the bottleneck of the Purple Mansion realm was now within easy reach for him. Even though the origin power was now exhausted, Ye Qingxuan could break through effortlessly.
With a thought, the barrier that belonged to the Purple Mansion realm crumbled. Ye Qingxuan’s realm instantly stepped into the Purple Mansion stage. However, without the cave-heaven’s origin power, it took him considerable time absorbing spiritual energy to stabilize his cultivation at the early Purple Mansion level.
Fortunately, Ye Qingxuan was currently within the Qingxuan Paradise, so this process didn’t cause much disturbance to the outside world.
Years of laying low, now reaching Purple Mansion in one go! Even with Ye Qingxuan’s temperament, he couldn’t help but reveal excitement in his eyes.
After the cave-heaven successfully formed, a spatial tunnel appeared deep within the Qingxuan Paradise, facilitated by the special connection between Ye Qingxuan and the Eternal Turtle. Beyond the spatial tunnel, the origin essences of the cave-heaven and paradise began to merge and interflow, complementing each other. The paradise, originally at late first-order, instantly advanced to peak first-order.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan didn’t linger. He stepped through the spatial tunnel and left the Qingxuan Paradise.
Passing through the spatial tunnel from the paradise, Ye Qingxuan arrived in a bright space—this was the newly formed cave-heaven. A gentle orb of light illuminated everything from above; this orb was the origin core of the cave-heaven itself.
Like the paradise, the cave-heaven was currently at peak first-order. For a cave-heaven paradise to advance in rank, besides sufficient energy, it needed to analyze enough fragments of elemental laws to perfect itself. This was also the reason the current cave-heaven paradise was limited to peak first-order.
“This cave-heaven shall be named Qingxuan Cave-Heaven!” Since the paradise was named after him, he might as well name the cave-heaven similarly—easier to remember!
Standing within the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven, Ye Qingxuan closed his eyes slightly, sensing its state. And just as he had anticipated! Due to the unique nature of the Eternal Turtle, he could both fully control the cave-heaven paradise, enjoying its benefits, and remain free from its karmic restrictions, transcending it!
Currently, his life-bound avatar, the Eternal Turtle, had initially merged with the cave-heaven. However, complete fusion would likely require the cave-heaven and paradise to unite and advance to a minor world. But even with just initial fusion, the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven had already acquired the Eternal Turtle’s characteristic of being impervious to all arts.
Simply put, from now on, Ye Qingxuan’s cave-heaven could ignore attacks from others. This characteristic delighted Ye Qingxuan immensely. It meant that as long as his main body laid low within the Qingxuan Cave-Heaven in the future, he would be essentially safe.
The cave-heaven currently spanned only about ten li in radius, similar in area to the paradise. Its terrain was mostly plains for now, with a small hill at the center. Between the hills, a spirit spring continuously bubbled forth with spirit water.
The spiritual energy density within the cave-heaven had just reached around second-order. However, as it exchanged energy with the paradise and continuously converted primal chaos energy, the concentration of spiritual energy was constantly rising.
Moreover, after the cave-heaven and paradise connected, Ye Qingxuan perceived that the inherent limitations of the paradise itself were greatly reduced.
The growth of spirit plants primarily relies on the energy and nutrients within the earth! The reason paradise cultivators couldn’t grow spirit plants above their paradise’s rank was that the paradise’s origin absorbed energy from the inner layer of the void. The speed at which it converted and increased the earth’s origin energy was too slow. Thus, once spirit plants exceeded the paradise’s rank, they would severely hinder its development or even directly absorb the paradise’s origin to grow.
But the Earth Immortal’s path was different. The origin essences of the cave-heaven and paradise could merge and interact. With the cave-heaven continuously converting primal chaos energy to nourish all things, a combined first-order cave-heaven paradise could cultivate spirit plants up to the third-order. This would significantly increase the assistance the cave-heaven paradise could provide to Ye Qingxuan.
